The Story of Benjamin Guggenheim and Ninette Aubart as told by Laurent Boscq of Paristories.com at the Au Lapin Agile and the Saint-Vincent Cemetery Montmartre, Paris April 2014 by Stan & Lois McQuown.

Well the installation of the 31 images has been completed, and for those of you that cannot see the images in person hanging on the red brick walls of Mug Shots Coffee House in Oroville, I have uploaded them to my website! Here is the direct link to the Paris April 2014 Collection.

We finally have all of the beautiful 31 images that will be on display for our reception at Mug Shot’s Coffee House in Oroville, CA on July 9th! There will be refreshments and door prizes, while they last and a good time had by all, we hope if you are in the area you can join us!

It’s official, we have a flyer for our reception at Mug Shots Coffee House on July 9, 2014, 5-7pm refreshments will be served! Hope anyone in the area can make it as there will be door prizes and amazing photography for those that attend!

Well it has been Forty Days since I got home from Paris, and all of this time I have been key wording the 29,684 photos that we took during our April 2014 trip! I have also finally narrowed down the images that I want to seriously look at to print for our up coming showing at Mug Shots, on the brick walls, during the whole month of July. That narrowed down list now has 399 images in it and I have a date with the printer this Friday the 13th to go over what and how I want the final show images printed. Back to the salt mines as they say!

Our reception has been set for July 9th 5-7pm, 2014 at Mug Shots, 2040 Montgomery St, Oroville, CA 95965. Please join us if you can.

Saying goodbye to Paris at this point was not a hard thing to do, I was tired and worn out from all of the stairs, my knees were barking at me with every step and I missed my wife! I was able to get help from the owner of the apartment to help me get my two carry-ons and my two pieces of luggage down the stairs and up to the curb to meet my driver for the ride to the Charles de Gaulle Airport. Without his help, I was left with only the thought of throwing everything out the 4th story window and going down the stairs and seeing what was salvageable to take home!

I was looking forward to the actual flight home because on the two trips in the past I had great views of Iceland, Greenland and the Hudson Bay out my window on those flights! With a little luck with the weather I might get a third chance to view these three land and water features.

CDG escalator, bumpy and fun!

Very unique to the Paris CDG airport, crossing escalators in glass tubes!

We have lift off!

Our first look at Iceland, camera in hand this trip!

Iceland from 35,000 feet!

Over ice covered Iceland!

More Iceland from 7 miles up!

These Iceland shots were taken with my iPhone 4!

Hello Greenland’s West Coast, too cloudy until now to see any land mass!

Greenland now with a Canon point and shoot camera with a fifty times zoom lens! #1

Greenland now with a Canon point and shoot camera with a fifty times zoom lens! #2

Greenland now with a Canon point and shoot camera with a fifty times zoom lens! #3

Greenland now with a Canon point and shoot camera with a fifty times zoom lens! #4

Greenland now with a Canon point and shoot camera with a fifty times zoom lens! #5

Greenland now with a Canon point and shoot camera with a fifty times zoom lens! #6

Greenland iceberg!

Hudson Bay under ice!

Hudson Bay ice flow!

Welcome to California, a view of Mt. Shasta rising above the clouds!

Point Reyes and and the Pacific Ocean with SFO just minutes away!

Lois and I wish all of you a wonderful life with many adventures and safe travels! Well in real time, it is now the end of May, 30 days since I left Paris and my wife and I cannot wait to go back to the City of Lights! It will be two or three years from now, but we will get back, heck we only did one day trip completely and we have 17 more to do! And we are no way done posting to this blog as we have to process the 29, 685 images we took plus the seven plus hours of video to go through and post some videos of fun and entertainment! There is scheduled at this time, a reception to be held at Mug Shots in Downtown Oroville on July 9, a Wednesday night from 5-7pm to showcase new Paris photos that will be hung on Mug Shots’ walls for the whole month of July 2014. More posts will be made as we get closer to that date! Thank you all very much for taking your time to look at and read our blog, it has been a fun and challenging experience for us and we appreciate your support! As they say, watch this spot!

This walk starts at the Arts et Metiers Metro. The Metro is the main metro stop for the Metiers Art Museum, and is an industrial design museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. The museum was founded in 1794 as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions! The Metro stop is a decorated art canvas in 3-D, a must see if you get the chance to make a change or just visit the Metro on it’s own. From here I walked to the Centre Pompidou at the Place Georges-Pompidou to find out that it is closed on Tuesdays, another lucky break, not!

Arts et Metiers Metro!

High tech art lines the ceiling of the Arts et Metiers Metro! #1

High tech art lines the ceiling of the Arts et Metiers Metro! #2

Le Centre Pompidou

When the Centre Georges Pompidou was completed in 1977 initially, all of the functional structural elements of the building were colour-coded: green pipes are plumbing, blue ducts are for climate control, electrical wires are encased in yellow, and circulation elements and devices for safety (e.g., fire extinguishers) are red. However, recent visits suggest that this color-coding has partially lapsed, and many of the elements are simply painted white.

Street art at the Centre Georges Pompidou!

Fontaine Stravinsky and the Paroisse Saint Merry Church!

Fontaine Stravinsky and the Paroisse Saint Merry Church with some wall art and the air intake pipes for the George Pompidou Center!

Paroisse Saint Merry Church and wall art!

Hôtel de Ville is a building housing the city’s local administration. Standing on the place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville in the city’s IVe arrondissement, it has been the location of the municipality of Paris since 1357.

Cafe Montmartre still in the shadows as the sunlight starts to hit Paris!

From Rue Lepic the Eiffel Tower is now basking in sunlight!

The Moulin de la Galette on Rue Lepic is still in shadow as the taller Montmartre buildings catch the sun!

The windows of the Le Bateau Lavoir showing the reflection of sunlight from across the square. Picasso had his studio here, from 1904 – 1909, with other artists including Fernande Olivier (whom he met there and had a relationship with for 7 years), Kees Van Dongen, Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani, and Jacques Vaillant, among others. Many called this the “birthplace of cubism”!